Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale ...The Author, 1800 - India |
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Page 17
... still more to the fouth - weft , near the fhore of the main ftream of the Indus ; " and their capital , " fays Mr. Rennel , " was doubt- lefs Multan , ' It may be proper , however , in this place , to note , that the Dutch traveller ...
... still more to the fouth - weft , near the fhore of the main ftream of the Indus ; " and their capital , " fays Mr. Rennel , " was doubt- lefs Multan , ' It may be proper , however , in this place , to note , that the Dutch traveller ...
Page 43
... still continued , however , a very magnificent city ; - its raja poffeffed the first rank , both of civil and military distinction ; and we find his name par- ticularly mentioned among the five great rajas who united to oppose the first ...
... still continued , however , a very magnificent city ; - its raja poffeffed the first rank , both of civil and military distinction ; and we find his name par- ticularly mentioned among the five great rajas who united to oppose the first ...
Page 131
... still more fingular occurs in the fame page : for the elected rajah has the Kefhkeh drawn upon his forehead with human blood . This cuftom alone seems to prove that they are not of the true line of the blood - abhorring Hindoo . Marwar ...
... still more fingular occurs in the fame page : for the elected rajah has the Kefhkeh drawn upon his forehead with human blood . This cuftom alone seems to prove that they are not of the true line of the blood - abhorring Hindoo . Marwar ...
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Abul Fazil Acbar afferted Afia Afiatic aftronomical againſt Agra alfo ancient antiquity Arrian Ayeen Akbery Bahar Bengal called Canouge capital celebrated claffical cofe confiderable courſe Delhi deſcribed Differtation divifions eaſt eaſtern empire engravings extenfive facred faid fame fecond feems feven fhall fhould fince fircars firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folio fome foobah fouth fovereign ftated ftill ftream fuch fuppofed Gangarides Ganges Gazna geographical greateſt hiftorians himſelf Hindoftan Hindoos hiſtory Imaus India Indus itſelf Lahore laſt Lond magnificent miles Mirkhond moft moſt mountains Multan muſt myſelf neceffary obferves occafion octavo Palibothra Perfian poffeffion poffibly Porus prefent province Ptolemy quarto rajas reader refidence reign remarkable Rennel repreſented Reſearches reſpect river Sanfcreet ſcience ſeems Sir William Jones ſtated ſtone Strabo ſubject thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand Timur tion tranflated uſe vaft vols octavo vols quarto volume weft weſtern whofe whoſe worſhip writing